Can anybody remember when points used to make a pit on one point and a pile on the other?Ah the good old days when you had to file your points and use a dwell guage to set them.How about the compasiter(how you like that spelling?)that would soak up some of the voltage to keep the points from pitting and you could even adjust your mechanical voltage regulator according to which point had the pile on it and which had the pit.And after all these years I always thought that the ballast cut the voltage to the coil AND THE POINTS to reduce arching at the points.Man,thats old school!!